December 2011
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Poverty continues to fall in Latin America →
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Mexico Maya begin 2012 'end of era' countdown →
Indigenous Maya communities in southern Mexico have begun a year-long countdown to 21 December 2012, which will mark the end of a five-millenia cycle in the ancient Mayan calendar.
Mayan priests in El Salvador have also held ceremonies to mark the occasion
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106 of the most beloved Street Art Photos – Year... →
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106 of the most beloved Street Art Photos – Year... →
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106 of the most beloved Street Art Photos – Year... →
“There´s tools and colours for all of us, to lend from nature to make the world more understandable and beautiful”.
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106 of the most beloved Street Art Photos – Year... →
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“Accordingly, many theists, like many atheists, believe that moral value is...”
– Good Minus God
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Helping the poor to save: A new model of... →
Ms Kwei (pictured) is one of millions of poor people to have benefited from the hottest trend in microfinance: village savings and loans associations. Millions of people like her survive on meagre and erratic earnings. Access to the simplest financial services can help stabilise their incomes, which in turn makes them less vulnerable to diseases and natural disasters. An unexpected flood or...
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For Illegal Immigrant, Line Is Drawn at Transplant →
An illegal immigrant from Mexico, called Angel, undergoing a dialysis treatment. The government pays for a lifetime of dialysis, but not a transplant.
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Mass March by Cairo Women in Protest Over Abuse by... →
A poster showing a woman attacked by officers was carried by one of several thousand marchers Tuesday in downtown Cairo.
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Costa Rica's Peaceful Reputation At Risk From... →
even the Switzerland of Latin America can’t escape drug war violence :(
Costa Rican and U.S. Guard Coast members seized this semi-submersible which was carrying seven tons of cocaine. It is shown here at Costa Rica’s Puntarenas Coast Guard headquarters on Sept. 17, 2008. Four Colombians were arrested.
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'Mother Robin' wins CNN Hero of the Year →
“Every baby’s first breath on Earth could be one of peace and love. Every mother should be healthy and strong. Every birth could be safe and loving. But our world is not there yet,”
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Operation Rhino Drop →
A tranquilized black rhinoceros is transported by helicopter to a waiting vehicle in South Africa’s Eastern Cape Province (map) at the beginning of November.
The helicopter trip, which lasted less than ten minutes, was part of a new relocation technique for moving rhinos from poaching-prone areas to secure reserves.
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Pictures We Love: Best of November →
Volunteers in Seoul make kimchi, South Korea’s national dish, for donation to the needy on November 8. In all, about 2,000 women made 270 tons of the fermented dish. Made with cabbage and other vegetables and seasoned with garlic and spices, kimchi is the most popular traditional food in the country.
A new type of metallic material is balanced on the seed head of a dandelion to...
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Republicans color the abortion debate →
How can you support the GOP?
Rep. Trent Franks established his credentials as a civil rights leader last year when the Arizona Republican argued that, because of high abortion rates in black communities,African Americans were better off under slavery.
Drawing a line from the Civil War to the suffragist movement to defeating Hitler to the civil rights era, Franks determined that “there is one...
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Inequality street →
Income inequality is rising in rich countries
THE gap between rich and poor has grown ever wider in wealthy countries over the past three decades. A new report by the OECD has reams of data on this phenomenon and is well worth looking at. The Gini coefficient, a measure of inequality in which zero corresponds to everyone having the same income and one means the richest person has all the income,...
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Organic Can Feed the World →
What is notably lacking in the “conventional” versus organic debate are studies backing up the claim that organic can’t feed the world’s growing population.
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The 45 Most Powerful Images Of 2011 →
A distressed bride attempts suicide in China after her fiance abruptly called off their marriage. Still in her wedding gown, she tried to kill herself by jumping out of a window of a seventh floor building. Right as she jumped, a man managed to catch and save her.
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The 45 Most Powerful Images Of 2011 →
A University of California Davis police officer pepper-sprays students during their sit-in at an “Occupy UCD” demonstration in Davis, California. (Jasna Hodzic)
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The 45 Most Powerful Images Of 2011 →
A girl in isolation for radiation screening looks at her dog through a window in Nihonmatsu, Japan on March 14.
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The 45 Most Powerful Images Of 2011 →
Phyllis Siegel, 76, left, and Connie Kopelov, 84, both of New York, embrace after becoming the first same-sex couple to get married at the Manhattan City Clerk’s office.
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The 45 Most Powerful Images Of 2011 →
Two lights from the former site of the World Trade Centers shine for the 10th anniversary of 9/11.
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Another Shot: AK-47s as Jewelry →
So far, Fonderie 47 has demolished about 6,000 assault rifles, according to Fonderie 47.
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There’s little doubt President Barack Obama has... →
President Barack Obama met for the third time with Native American tribal leaders on Friday, signing an executive order on tribal colleges and assuring them “you have a president that’s got your back.”
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That Eternal Question of Fairness →
THE growing gap between the top earners and everyone else is agitating our society in newly public ways. The Occupy Wall Street movement is one example. The anger spilling out over deficit reduction — or lack thereof — in Congress is another.
By exploring an ancient Greek myth, the author speaks to an issue that is particularly relevant today but also eternal in its elements. How do you...
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Hungary Destroys All Monsanto GMO Corn Fields →
Hungary has taken a bold stand against biotech giant Monsanto and genetic modification by destroying 1000 acres of maize found to have been grown with genetically modified seeds, according to Hungary deputy state secretary of the Minstry of Rural Development Lajos Bognar. Unlike many European Union countries, genetically modified (GM) seeds are banned in Hungary. In a similar stance against GM...
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The Top 10 Relationship Words That Aren't... →
Here are my top ten words, compiled from online collections, to describe love, desire and relationships that have no real English translation, but that capture subtle realities that even we English speakers have felt once or twice. As I came across these words I’d have the occasional epiphany: “Oh yeah! That’s what I was feeling…”
Cafuné (Brazilian Portuguese): The act of tenderly running...
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“A man with conviction is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he...”
– Stanford University psychologist Leon Festinger, in a passage that might have been referring to climate change denial.